The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 18 Outline
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Chapter 18 Outline The Atlantic System and Africa (1550-1800) I. Plantations in the West Indies A. Colonization Before 1650 -Before 1650, the Europeans were manly focused on colonies in the West Indies.
However their attention soon shifted towards colonizing the American mainland.
(Virginia, New England, South Carolina, etc.) However after 1600 the French and
English started to colonize islands in the West Indies, or the present-day
Caribbean. Their aim was to create largely successful plantations that grew
tobacco and sugar. Tobacco was especially important to the Europeans because
despite King James warnings, the population smoked so much that tobacco
exports became as valuable as gold and silver.
-Making a large tobacco industry was not easy though. Hurricanes, epidemics,